The Parliament has not found the way out of the labyrinth into which the presidency of Laura Borràs has introduced it and it will be the Central Electoral Board (JEC), which meets this Thursday in Madrid, which will take the first step, through the foreseeable withdrawal of the act of deputy of the leader of Junts, towards the recovery of normality.
Nine months after his suspension and when he has already been sentenced in the first instance to prison and disqualification, the parliamentary groups have not found a way to replace Borràs, who refuses to resign from his position, the second in the institutional order of Catalonia , for believing themselves to be the victim of political persecution or lawfare.
Following the advice of the Chamber's lawyers, who are based on an opinion of the Consell de Garanties Estatutàries that rejects the single reading when it affects fundamental rights or is highly technically complex, the reform of the regulation proposed by the PSC to dismiss the Board members who lose the confidence of the parliamentary majority will be processed as a draft law. And although the deadlines are accelerated by way of extraordinary urgency, it will reach the plenary session at the beginning of May, when the JEC has already resolved the case.
In any case, judging by what both said yesterday, it is not clear that the modification promoted by the Socialists will go ahead, since the Republicans, who consider it an "electoralist maneuver", warn in it "claroscuros" that they can cause it to be used in an “arbitrary” way.
Be that as it may, all the spokespersons, except that of Junts, a group that did not appear in the press room yesterday, agreed that Borràs herself should be the one to step aside out of responsibility and even because of the "patriotic sense" or the “esteem for the institutions” that the president of Junts arrogates to herself, as the socialist Alícia Romero argued ironically.
In a Solomonic decision, the reform of the regulation presented by ERC and the CUP, which also aspired to a single reading to approve it on April 18, will also be processed through the extraordinary urgency procedure. In their proposal, both groups ask that mechanisms be enabled to prohibit hate speech and that delegated and telematic voting be regulated. Raised "in defense of the sovereignty of the institution", this modification aims to neutralize the threat that the situation of Lluís Puig, who works as a deputy from Brussels although his circumstances are not included in the regulations, entails the disqualification of any member of the Table for computing your vote.
As in the case of Borràs, the deadlines have been thrown up without the Parliament having undone its own tangle: Puig will participate in next week's plenary session despite the fact that the Constitutional Court has ruled up to five times that he does not have the right to do so .
